Button



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F. GILES.

SPRING BUTTON.

No. 532,873. Patented Jan. 22, 1895.

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FREDERICK GILES, OF SOUTH YARRA, VICTORIA.

SPRING-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 532,873, dated January 22, 1895. Application filed May 14,1894 Serial No fillllsd- (N0 model.) i

.To all whom it may concern:

Be 'it known that I, FREDERICK GILns, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of Fawkner Street, South Yarra, in the Colony of Victoria, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Spring- Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of an improvement in spring buttons for gloves, boots,'shoes, leggins and the like wherebya constant spring is maintained, and also in means by which buttons of such class may be readily secured to the material required.

By spring buttons I refer to that class of fastenings wherein a metal cap is pressed over the head of a spherical or partly spherical button so as to form a hold on the flange of same and produce a securely fixed button to form portion of a clasp for holding together the flaps of such gloves, boots, (inc.

Reference may now be made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows an improved spring button one half in elevation and one half in vertical section in the head or sphere of which a spiral spring is set. Fig. 2 shows a plan of an ordinary spherical button. Fig. 3 shows a plan of an annular plat'e provided with prongs which is passed over the spherical head of the button. Fig. 4 shows my improved button with its annular ring in position for securing on a glove or 'boot the material forming such glove or boot being indicated by M. Fig. 5 shows a vertical cross-section of one of my spring buttons with a securing ring resting on top of its base and provided with staples which may be employed for securing the button to the fabric. Fig. 6 shows an independent clip staple for securing a perforated base of a spring button to fabric.

In the drawings A (Fig. 2) shows an annular plate or ring of metal which is provided with two or more spikes A preferably of about a quarter of an inch in length and pointed at their ends. These spikes are preferably formed in one piece with the annular plate and are turned over at right angles to same. (See Fig. 4.) This metal ring is passed over the head of a button and stopped against the flange of same (see Fig. 5) so as to place it around its shank andits spikes or pins A' referred to.

If preferred the spring button may be constructed with a perforated square or circular plate secured to and above the flange B (Fig. 4) so as toallow the projecting spikes A' of the annular plate A to pass through the perforations on such plate; or the plate of the spherical button may be otherwise secured to the annular ring A.

A spiral spring O is inserted in the spherical head of the button (which I prefer to employ,-see Fig. 1) and indentsDare formed in the exterior of the hemispheres which keep the said spring in position. Such spiral spring isshown to have its middle coils of largerdiameter than its end coils, and thereby the clasticity of the spring is increased and it is made possible to bring such middle coils to also rest directly upon the hemispheres forming the head of the button.

The central apertures of rings A and B are made sufliciently large to permit the same to be passed over the button head when attaching the buttons to or detaching the same from the material, and it will be seen that owing to this arrangement, if one of the fastening spikes should become accidentally destroyed, the same button head may again be employed, a. new part only being substituted for the part carrying such spikes.

The manner of securing the button on to the pins on the annular ring Aare forced inwardly so as to approximately meet about a common center, thereby forming a neat and secure hold of the material to which the button is fastened.

When applying my invention to boots the buttons would probably be sewed on to the boots by thread through the perforated flange or plate B and would be easily removed by cutting the thread and may then be secured in the position to fit the purchaser by means of the annular ring with its spikes passing over the flange and clinched as described.

Referring to Fig. 6 it will be seen that the clip staple there illustrated is an appliance for securing the perforated flange or spring buttons to the material by passing the points of the staple through the perforationsand then turning same over by pinchers as hereinbefore described. However, I desire to have it understood that my spring buttons may be provided with any suitable bases and may be attached to fabric in whatever way that may be most convenient in each case.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is- 1. A spring button having its head made'of two sections separated vertically but united FREDERICK GILES.

Witnesses:

A. O. SAoHsE,

C. E., Melbourne. 0. HARTLETT,

Clerk, Melbourne. 

